Criminal Love – Chapter 11 – The getaway.

Criminal Love

Itachi and Kirei spied on a village from a distance, behind some bushes.

"We can stop here and change clothes" Kirei picked the leaves out of her hair and flicked them away.

"Hm?"

"To disguise ourselves" He faced her.

"So quickly pick out your clothes, I'll pay"

Itachi stood outside of a store zipping up his new jacket, staring at the door.

"Hurry up" Kirei stepped out.

"I'm coming, I'm coming" She did a little twirl and held her arms out.

"Tada" Itachi un caringly glanced over her new blouse, skirt, tights and boots.

"Alright, now we can leave" Kirei waltzed up to him casually.

"Already?"

"Yes"

"There are eyes everywhere Kirei. It would be bad to stay for too long"

"Aww but we just got here~"

"I'd rather not fight here and now" They began their walk down the concreted path, less benevolent to the eyes watching them from the short wooden roof tops.

"So where to now?"

"Somewhere more remote then here" they ducked under a high bridge.

"We can't even stay in a motel for a while?"

"No, we would be taking too much of a risk. Especially since we're already being followed" Kirei tugged at his sleeve.

"Then why did we buy new clothes?" Itachi stopped.

"Because I've been wearing that same shirt for 8 years" He then smirked.

"And I didn't like your other outfit."

"Say what?" Itachi quickly glanced up at some roofs. Kirei stopped glaring at him for a moment to follow his line of sight, but Itachi stopped her, scooping her with his arm he swept her forward.

"We should leave, now" Itachi started shoving her forward, away from the crowds and high bridge.

"What? Why?"

"We're too crowded at the moment. They're giving us no choice but to fight and I'd rather not have others around"

Kirei began to shuffle through the grass. The leaves in the forest rustle against the breeze. Itachi trailed directly behind her, she turned to him angrily.

"Can we stop and rest sometime?"

"This place doesn't seem to have people; we can rest for a while"

"A while?"

Deeper in the forest, but still in the edges of it, sat the two against a large tree. Flowers bloomed in some of the bushes nearby.

"...I really don't want to fight"

"We have no choice, unless you want to go to jail" Itachi turned to her.

"Just remember what you learned" Kirei sighed. Itachi flicked towards the edges of the forest.

"They're coming" right above them the leaves rustled violently. They both faced the source, directly above. A kunai knife zipped through the green. It was redirected by someone else holding their own, clanging with the sound of metal. The stray kunai spun out of control flying off somewhere. Silence remained as Itachi held his kunai up. Scanning the area with his bright red sharingan eyes, Kirei's heart pounded as she stared out where the kunai had flown away 'holy crap!'

Suddenly an ANBU landed with a thump in front of them. He was cloaked with a cream coloured cloak.

"Uchiha Itachi, you're under arrest. Remain still or we will use force. This is your only warning you are surrounded"

Above Kirei and Itachi the leaves rustled more gently to let them know they were there. Itachi yanked Kirei by her arm and held the kunai to her throat in front of the ANBU to see.

"Don't come any closer!"Kirei surprised stiffened in his grip 'that's right...' She thought back to the day Itachi explained the situation to her.

Itachi held her hand and flicked her wrist for her, he let go and stepped back, handing her a shuriken. Kirei took the shuriken and threw it at the carved tree. She took another shuriken and threw it harder, it stuck into the bark but very far from the carved bull's eye. Itachi stepped back as Kirei snapped another at the tree.

"Remember; the enforcement still thinks that I've kidnapped you. So after your first attack, they're going to start targeting you too" The shuriken thunked closer to Itachi's perfect bull's eye hit. She stopped, letting her arm rest by her side.

"Maybe if you're lucky you can sneak attack them and still get away without them suspecting you" Kirei massaged her arm.

"This of course means that you'll have to kill them" She stopped and looked over the targets.

"You're not very good are you?" She glared back at him.

"Heh?"

The flash back ended as Itachi moved the kunai closer to her throat, pinching her skin. Keeping a tight grip on her shoulder, she stared at the kunai 'I know he's faking, but it's just too real!' Suddenly an ANBU shot out of the tree above, Itachi threw her on the ground, she scrapped the dirt up. The ANBU started making hand signs fast, but Itachi was already taking a deep breath. Rocks broke away from the ground and flew at Itachi just pass the ANBU who was flying head first towards the ground. But Itachi blew out a magnificent fire ball, it swirled forward as the ANBU just landed in a handstand, twisting himself to join his buddy in dodging the massive inferno. The flames twisted through the leaves crashing down trees and sending them alight, the flower and bushes burned and fell to the dirt. The two ANBU landed safely off the side of the blast. Kirei watched the spectacle from the dirt and grass in which she sat 'Wow! How am I supposed to attack them? Itachi seems to be able enough to fight them off on his own' She flinched as Itachi pounded one of them in the stomach; he fell as the other charged at Itachi with his sword. A sharp noise from the previous tree caught Kirei's brief attention. Itachi held his kunai and charged back at the sword wielding ANBU and left his other hand open, he snatched the sword by the blunt side just before the blow and manoeuvred the direction off to his side. He pierced his victim's throat and used his sword to pierce the chest of the man behind him that had planned to catch him off-guard. Blood stained his hands, blood stained their clothes. They gave a final yelp in agony and slipped to the ground. Kirei covered her mouth, and watched the two thumped together on the ground after Itachi ripped his kunai out. She trembled and her heart thumped loudly in her ears. Itachi turned and tore the sword out of the man and stabbed the unconscious one on the ground from earlier. He stood and turned to her after throwing the sword on the ground next to them. Kirei flinched and gave panicked look, her eyes filled with tears of terror.

"Kirei if you can't handle this, then you better just stay" She trembled as the tears ran down her cheeks.

"No-no...I'll come..." She struggled a bit to stand and then walk over to him, wiping her tears.

"We better leave now before back-up arrives" she stared at the bloodied bodies and rubbed her cheeks some more.

"Just give me a moment"

"You can stuff your face with comfort food later, we need to leave now" She looked at him, and sighed heavily.

"Alright"

Kirei sat on a bench in another town licking on an ice cream cone. Itachi sat next to her with his recently purchased lunch box and bottled tea. She blankly stared at the parked cart in front 'Why am I even with him? He's a murderer!' Her thoughts drifted to the vision of the ANBU being punctured 'He didn't give a second thought to those two' A cuter version of Itachi with his short black hair and big eyes with a wide smile 'It's nothing like before...I wonder...what on earth happened...' Her thoughts snapped away at Itachi's voice.

"Kirei!" He had set aside his drink, facing her.

"My, my" You must be thinking of something important"

"W-what? What makes you say that?"

"Well for one thing, you have ice cream all over your face" He twitched a snigger at the cream smothered on her mouth and cheeks and nose.

"And it's dribbling over your hands and onto the grass..." Kirei touched her face, and swung the cone away from dripping on her clothing, holding it out.

"WAAAAAAH!"

"Ha ha maybe you should pay more attention to what you're eating" Itachi continued to chuckle. Kirei stared at him a he finished and stared back.

"Hm? What are you looking at?" Kirei smiled to herself.

"Nothing" She said but the image of Itachi's smile flashed its way to Kirei's memory 'So cute! I guess I could stay with him a little longer' Itachi handed her napkin as she started wiping at the sticky cream.

"Here you better eat your ice cream quickly now, half of it is already on your hand"

"Aaaaaaah!" Kirei looked at her hand and panicked as it clumps slide down her very gross hand.

"You're going to need more napkins" Kirei took the napkin and watched the ice cream.

"Guh..."

"Tsk, Tsk I guess you're going to have to buy more, you know too much of that stuff and you'll be fat" Kirei finished wiping her face and angrily glared at Itachi.

"What are you suggesting?" Itachi glared back.

"Nothing I'm just saying you'll become fat if you keep eating that"

"Hmph"

Back at the inn room Kirei sat on her separate bed munching on biscuits, back facing Itachi, hunched over and glaring at the window. Itachi sighed at the sight.

"You know how difficult it would be to travel with you if you were fat?" Kirei only ate faster. Itachi sighed again.

"You're being very troublesome Kirei" Kirei turned her head just enough to stare Itachi down.

"So you would just leave me because I got FAT?"

"No. I'm just saying it would be hard to get away, if you're too heavy" Kirei turned away from him, and prepared another cookie for her mouth.

"Hmph! That weight could be muscle!"

"Well if you had that much muscle then I wouldn't have to carry you!" Kirei turned back to him glaring at him.

"Maybe I can't run as fast as you!"

"Then all that muscle is equivalent to fat! Useless!"

"You're the one who told me I could have my comfort food!"

"That was one ice cream..."

"Not the entire store!" Itachi was referring to the masses of cans, wrappers and crumbs that lay over the bed next to her. She just grabbed another chip packet and tore it open. She glared back at Itachi.

"I'VE BEEN TRAUMATIZED!"

"And you can't purge on something healthy"

"NO!"

"It wouldn't be comforting!"

"Tsk"

Kirei shoved the whole chips in her mouth at fast speeds. Itachi crept up behind her, wrapping his arms around her neck and nesting his chin on top of her head. Kirei immediately stopped and turned to him, making him get off her head.

"Wha-what are you doing?"

"I'm comforting you" She turned back at the window and Itachi re-sat his head on top of hers.

"Wha-why?" He whispered.

"'cause you're upset...and I don't want you to spend so much of my money on food" Kirei re-turned and glared at Itachi.

"Heh!" Itachi kept his hand on her shoulder.

"Hmph" Itachi picked up a can off the bed.

"See? Look, a little cuddle made you completely forget about food" Kirei stared at Itachi.

"Now imagine how much money I would save if we cuddled all the time..." Kirei puffed her cheeks and glared at him.

Itachi and Kirei slept in separate beds, with a mass of all the furniture Kirei could put her hands on in between them. She drooled on her pillow but Itachi stayed awake staring at the wall in thought.

Kirei yawned rubbing her eye, Itachi walked next to her.

"Still tired" He stared at her.

"Maybe you shouldn't have stayed up all night moving the furniture"

"Pfffffft!" She stopped and glared him.

"Well if you wouldn't be all in creepy rapist mode..." She drifted off as something caught her eye off in the distance.

"I wouldn't have" Kirei stared at the corner that had caught her eye.

"Hm? What is it?" She continued to stare at the corner turning to Itachi.

"Oh, it's nothing I thought I saw...no. Nothing..." Itachi carefully watched her.

During lunch Kirei in the middle of eating noodles spotted something else, in the window out the open door. Itachi glared but saw nothing but the normal crowds of people just passing by, nothing suspicious. Kirei stopped glaring at the window and let the noodles hang and drip all over her. Itachi sighed.

The rest of the day they spent together at this town they spent, Kirei continuously kept seeing something and gasping, making a shocked face. For the fourth time that day Itachi interrupted Kirei's weird spasms.

"Kirei!" She snapped out of the trance and faced Itachi.

"You've been seeing things all day now, tell me what it is" Kirei sighed and glanced at the area she spotted it before.

"Well I think it's ..." She stopped mid-sentence and glared.

"There he is!" She sprinted down the street.

"Hey wait! Who? Who's he!" Kirei skidded around the corner and around the building.

"Kirei!" Itachi barely spotted her flicking long hair disappear around the corners.

She continued to sprint down the streets into the thick forests outside the town, she slowed down at the clearing, bending over and huffing. A blur instantly flashed in front of her.

"Itachi!" He glared at her.

"This has gone far enough Kirei; now tell me what's going on"

"The guy! He's in the tree!"

"Who? Who's in the tree?" Itachi looked behind him at the tree that sat at the edge of the clearing over a small cliff, it rustled un-naturally a bit. Itachi turned to the sides as many people jumped into the clearing, he scanned them all, police – not very high in rank, and generally weak, especially if they're up against someone like Itachi. Kirei spotted the person again and, again shouted over energetically.

"There!" Itachi faced the large tree again. Kirei calmed down and glared.

"I knew it...It's...Tamaki!"

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